by Liane Davey | Oct 21, 2018 | Be a better team leader, Exercises, Personal Effectiveness
Leading through change is a particularly difficult assignment. You’re expected to mobilize your team while you’re struggling to master yourself. This month, I’m conducting sessions with the leaders in a large multi-national company to help them cope with their own...
by Liane Davey | Sep 23, 2018 | About teams, Be a better team leader, How to fix teams
My favorite source of topics for posts are the questions I get at the end of my speeches. Last week, I was giving the opening keynote in a room full of mayors and local government representatives. The speech was called, “Change Has Changed.” It’s about the challenges...
by Liane Davey | Jul 1, 2018 | Be a better team leader, Communication, Right Words to Say, Uncategorized
I hear people talk about change in organizations as if it’s something new. That’s total crap. Change has been around for as long as business has. But I do think it’s fair to say that something’s different now. Change has changed. It’s more frequent, more complex, and...
by Liane Davey | Jun 24, 2018 | Be a better team leader, Headline News, Success Stories
It’s World Cup time again. This global football-fest is always a great source of teamwork stories, including that moment in 2010 when I got called as an “expert” to comment when France’s players refused to practice in protest of one of the star players being expelled....
by Liane Davey | Jun 17, 2018 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Communication, Right Words to Say
I was working with a team recently that had developed a bit of a bad reputation. The management team of their organization had decided that they were complacent, stuck in the past, and not driving hard enough for growth. The team leader admitted that there was a...
by Liane Davey | May 6, 2018 | Be a better team leader, Conflict, Horror Stories
First off, apologies for posting so infrequently for the past while. I’ve been on the road for most of the past two months and I’ve devoted all available writing time to my new manuscript. The great news is that I just submitted Chapter 9 and that means only one more...
